Sanjay Mehotra: It is this small…smaller than my thumb nail…
BRADLEY HOPPENSTEIN: A HISTORIC CHIP ANNOUNCEMENT IN CENTRAL NEW YORK…WITH HOPES TO PAVE THE WAY FOR THE REST OF THE COUNTRY.
JOE BIDEN: IT’S LIKE COMING HOME, MAN…
HOPPENSTEIN: PRESIDENT BIDEN MADE THE TRIP TO HIS FORMER HOME TODAY WITH A BUSY TO-DO LIST…INCLUDING CELEBRATING MICRON’S BIG NEW INVESTMENT IN THE REGION.
BIDEN: ONE-HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. THOSE SMALL LITTLE COMPUTER CHIPS THAT POWER EVERYTHING IN OUR EVERY DAY LIVES FROM OUR SMARTPHONES TO AUTOMOBILES, WASHING MACHINES, HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT…YOU NAME IT. IT’S THE LARGEST AMERICAN INVESTMENT OF ITS KIND EVER IN OUR HISTORY.
HOPPENSTEIN: REPRESENTATIVES FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE WERE IN ATTENDANCE…SOME MAKING THE TRIP WITH THE PRESIDENT…BUT MOST NOTABLE TO C-N-Y WAS ONONDAGA COUNTY EXECUTIVE RYAN MCMAHON.
RYAN MCMAHON: ARE WE FIRED UP?
HOPPENSTEIN: HE SAID HE HAS NOT MET THE PRESIDENT BEFORE…BUT HIS VISIT AND THE MICRON ANNOUNCEMENT GIVE LIFE TO BIPARTISANSHIP…
MCMAHON: CERTAINLY, YOU SAW A TREMENDOUS BIPARTISAN EFFORT TO GET THESE JOBS BACK TO THE U.S, TO GET THESE JOBS BACK TO NEW YORK AND TO WHITE PINE. SO TODAY IS ABOUT CELEBRATING THAT BIPARTISAN EFFORT.
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President Biden was here at Onondaga Community College today, touting Micron’s 100-billion-dollar investment in chip manufacturing in Central New York, but he also used the opportunity to give some Democrats a boost in the midterms.
BIDEN: BUT BECAUSE OF THE NEW LAW I SIGNED AND CHUCK SIGNED AND DELIVERED WE’RE TURNING THINGS WAY AROUND. AROUND IN A BIG WAY. BY THE WAY IF I ASKED YOU WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM IS…REPUBLICANS USED TO HAVE A PLATFORM.
HOCHUL: AND I WANT TO THANK THE PRESIDENT AND MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER. IF HE HAD NOT BEEN MAJORITY LEADER, WE WOULD NOT BE SITTING HERE TODAY. WE NEEDED THE DEMOCRATS TO GET IT OVER THE FINISH LINE…
HOPPENSTEIN: THOSE MIDTERM ELECTIONS ARE JUST ELEVEN DAYS AWAY. EARLY VOTING IN NEW YORK STARTS SATURDAY. FROM O-C-C…BRADLEY HOPPENSTEIN…N-C-C NEWS…
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – President Biden visited Syracuse on Thursday to tout Micron Technology’s announcement of a $100 billion investment in Central New York.
Micron announced on Oct. 4 that it selected the White Pine Commerce Park in Clay for a new semiconductor manufacturing plant. In total, the project can bring up to 50 thousand jobs.
Biden spoke at Onondaga Community College, being the first president to visit the college in its 61-year history.
Several politicians from New York and across the country were also in attendance, with Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon meeting President Biden for the first time.
“Certainly you saw a tremendous bipartisan effort to get these jobs back to the U.S. and to get these jobs back to New York and White Pine. We’re celebrating that bipartisan effort today and what those jobs mean,” McMahon said.
The Democrats also used the event as an opportunity to make one last push before November’s midterm elections.
In the New York gubernatorial race specifically, polls are tightening between Kathy Hochul (D) and Lee Zeldin (R) outside of New York City.
“I want to thank the President and majority leader Chuck Schumer. If he had not been majority leader, we would not be sitting here today. We needed the Democrats to push this bill through,” Hochul said, in reference to Schumer’s Chips and Science Act.
